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Loved this thread, was a great read.  

Except for the whole "How dare you complain about a $400.00 program" part.  That part was just ... odd.  I'm always astonished how it is unacceptable to ask the same of virtual products, or to be just as critical, as people are of real goods.  I can say GE washing machines do not have all the features they should and nobody gets offended.  

And how do this people know about the development cost of a specific feature anyway?

 

Well of course that's unknowable.  But soft bodies aren't like the moon race, we aren't asking SM to invent them.  They could add them via discussed improvements to the cloth sim.  They could make a special magnet that would "lazy follow" its parent.  They could graft in Bullet like everyone else is doing.  They could just make a springy bone of some kind and call the problem solved... 

At the very least, I'd hope they understand the solutions being presented here and make sure that nothing in the way Poser works or is exposed to developers is slowing these developments.  ( I know that Sparrowhawke felt his jiggles plug-in could be improved if he could hook into a part of Carrara he had no access to.  I don't know if that's the case with Poser or not.)

The number of attempts at addressing the problem indicate to me that this would be a worthwhile addition.